Labourer No. 38, 2024,
mixed media, rice paper on board and bamboo
accompanied by AI voice in Javanese (from Rudi Hendriatno’s text translation of Mah's poem)
via QR code
Open-source Gamelan music
(H) 65 x (W) 26 x (D) 15 cm

Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2025 Nomination

Labourer No.38 AI Audio

Colonised victims are often nameless, only the colonisers remembered in history. This effigy honours a nameless victim, erased by empire and remembered in defiance. It stands as a refusal of silence, mourning what was taken and naming what cannot be forgotten. A quiet monument of resistance against historical erasure.